Quilts for Camp Korey

Camp Korey, located in Carnation, opens in June 2008. It is a camp for kids (ages 7 - 16) with life-threatening illnesses. The camper's weeklong experience will include fishing, hiking, swimming, making s'mores, and singing around the campfire with other kids going through the same stages of their illness.

When the campers leave to go home, they will be given a lap quilt to take home with them. This is where we are needed. Some of us quilters are setting up a time to meet every Thursday to work on these quilts. Would you like to help us? We would love to meet you and share in the making of these quilts.

We are fortunate enough to have a place to meet each Wednesday at Susan Giacomi's house in Woodinville. (See directions below.) We will be able to set up our quilting work and leave it there from week to week. You can come every Wednesday, every other Wednesday, once a month, or whenever you can. All help is welcome.

If you are interested, please e-mail Sandy Skeel at sandyskeel@hotmail.com to get on our e-mail list and find out more info.

Directions to Susan Giacomi's House

19204 244th Ave NE Woodinville

Quilters are the most amazing people. Not only do they share their love of quilting, but they share their quilts with loved ones and provide charity quilts for others.

I've seen this time and time again when a quilt comes in for charity or a call is put out to do something for another quilter or friend. A quilter is quick to respond as you did for Katrina, Ronald McDonald, Project Linus and many, many more worthy causes.

An idea was born to commit ourselves to a community service project I'm calling, Operation Quilter's Care. Wouldn't it be great for quilt shops with the 2007 shop hop fabric to organize to make "quillows" for needy, transitional or homeless families in our communities. Wouldn't it be great if we could deliver 100's of quillows to charity organizations that help our families in need, all up and down the I-5 corridor. All the quillows for this effort to be made with the Western Washington 2007 theme fabric. What a united effort on the part of quilt shops and quilters.

I ask you to consider the opportunity to help another family by making a quillow from kits we are putting together at the shop for $24.99 (tax included). The kit includes the easy quillow directions, 4 yards of shop hop fabric and 2 yards of 4 oz. poly batting with special gratitude to The Warm Company, who is supplying batting at a reduced cost to the quilt shops for this effort.

Make your quillow in a couple of hours, return it by October 15th to the shop for a tax receipt for your charitable donation. Gathering Fabric Quilt Shop will work with local non-profits organizations (Hope Link and the Maltby Food Bank) to distribute these quillows. See a wonderful sample of the project made by one of our quilt shop friends when you come by. See if it doesn't make you want to make one or more for Operation Quilters Care.

Thank you for your consideration of this project... and thank you from the countless families who will be wrapped in warmth by quilters who care.

Gathering Fabric Quilt Shop is proud to be able to donate 5 quilts for the Quilt Pink Auction sponsored by Better Homes and Gardens and American Patchwork and Quilting this spring 2007.

Thanks to all our volunteer quilters and everyone that had a hand in these wonderful quilts.

Quilt A Need
Help us to quilt the needs of our community by sharing your orphan quilts with others in need of comfort, and warmth. Gathering Fabric Quilt Shop will place your quilts with various local organizations servicing the needs of our community. Please consider making a baby or lap size quilt and bring it to the shop or take it directly to local agencies. Some of the organizations we support are:

Community Service, Quilter Style - The following letter exemplifies the quilter spirit that has inspired our quilters to open their hearts to those in need:

Thank you, Susan! I took the quilts to the school teacher earlier this week and she was taking them home to her family that night. She was so thrilled to have them! I didn't realize it was her childhood home and all of her mother's belongings that were destroyed in Mississippi. She said her mother lost all of her quilts in the hurricane and they were one's that her mother and grandmother had made. Can you imagine? She was especially delighted to see the Thimbleberries Quilt that someone donated because she said her mom had a similiar one on her bed when the hurricane hit! Wow! Talk about a blessing.

You are appreciated for all of the effort and caring you have shown in this project! Thanks again, and thanks for letting me be part of it by delivering the quilts to Donna at Snohomish High School.

With gratitude, Lonny.

See our Katrina Quilts page to find out how you can join Gathering Fabric Quilt Shop and our family of quilters in aiding those in need.